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    Cover of What We Buried
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    What We Buried
    Robert Roten­berg
    Cover of The Lost Gift to the Italian Island
    Fic­tion
    The Lost Gift to the Ital­ian Island
    Bar­bara Josselsohn
    Cover of Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen
    Cook­book
    Por­ti­co: Cook­ing and Feast­ing in Rome’s Jew­ish Kitchen
    Leah Koenig
    Essay

    Buried Mem­o­ries of the Holo­caust in Italy

    Fredric Brand­fon
    May 8, 2023
    Cover of Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
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    Diary of a Black Jew­ish Mes­si­ah: The Six­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Jour­ney of David Reubeni through Africa, the Mid­dle East, and Europe 
    Alan Ver­skin
    Cover of The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
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    The Shama­ma Case: Con­test­ing Cit­i­zen­ship across the Mod­ern Mediterranean
    Jes­si­ca M. Marglin
    Cover of Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy
    Cook­book
    Cook­ing alla Giu­dia: A Cel­e­bra­tion of the Jew­ish Food of Italy
    Benedet­ta Jas­mine Guetta
    Cover of Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
    Fic­tion
    Just a Girl: A True Sto­ry of World War II
    Lia Levi; Jess Mason, illus.; Sylvia Notini, trans. 
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    Excerpt: Cook­ing alla Giudia

    Benedet­ta Jas­mine Guetta
    April 11, 2022
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    Pol­lak’s Arm
    Hans von Trotha, Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator)
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    The Rab­bi and the Painter
    Shoshona Weiss, Jennifer Kirkham (Illustrator)
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    When Anti­semitism Came to Venezuela

    Moisés Naím
    October 6, 2021
    Essay

    The Jew­ish Writer Behind Mozart’s Operas

    Howard Jay Smith
    September 21, 2021
    Cover of Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero
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    Bar­tal­i’s Bicy­cle: The True Sto­ry of Gino Bar­tali, Italy’s Secret Hero
    Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
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    Angel of Alta Lan­ga: A Nov­el of Love & War
    Suzanne Hoff­man
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    Rebec­ca of Saler­no: A Nov­el of Rogue Cru­saders, a Jew­ish Female Physi­cian, and a Murder
    Esther Erman
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